English Explanatory Dictionary

laurels

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of laurel
noun
  1. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.
verb
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel
noun
  1. plural of Laurel

Word forms

laurels

Related words

mountain laurel rest on one's laurels laureate
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